Out of all the BS, this one isn't too bad as it affects all teams equally.
I remember they did the same thing for Le Mans. It used to be drivers started outside their cars on the other side of the road and had to sprint across at the start. After a bunch of incidents with people not wearing their safety belts, that practice was rightfully abandoned.
Imagine your workplace. Now imagine the HR department. Imagine if said HR department had complete authority over your life.
Not just when and where you get to work but also when and where you get to eat, shit, take a leak, what you're allowed to say, think, do, etc. and if they felt like it they could demand that you go die on their behalf. Feels like a shit job? Well sorry, your next chance to quit will come up in 3 years and until then you're here by force of law.
Oh and they also have their own HR police to enforce those decisions against you, with penalties up to and including death.
I was under the illusion that the military were all about efficiency
Tell me you've never served without telling me you've never served.
Which, I suppose, is arguably the correct decision so not trying to knock you at all.
Of course he's got legal justification. He's got the henchmen with the guns and he's even got his pravda to make it look good.
Anything written on a piece of paper is worthless as long as it's not backed by violence and at least for now, only one side is willing to use that.
That's what you get when you surrender the universities. Eventually, every job which requires a degree will be filled by products of those corrupted shithouses.